#Loneliness Is Not an #Epidemic

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/202504/loneliness-is-not-an-epidemic

A Psychologist Explains Our ‘Parasocial’ Obsession With Celebrity Love https://www.inbella.com/980108/a-psychologist-explains-our-parasocial-obsession-with-celebrity-love/ #AttachmentStyles #CelebritiesNews #CelebrityCouple #entitlement #fans #loneliness #MarkTravers #ParasocialRelationships #RomComs #TaylorSwift #TomHollandAndZendaya

Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of #museum prescriptions

#Research backs schemes that encourage doctors to prescribe time in cultural institutions to boost mental #health and reduce #loneliness

#Art #Culture #Wellbeing

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/mar/31/take-two-van-goghs-daily-the-growing-popularity-of-museum-prescriptions?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Pets and cognitive decline

https://volewica.blogspot.com/2024/02/pets-and-cognitive-decline.html

The Atlantic recently published a feature about the loneliness epidemic that many Americans have fallen victim to — by our own doing in many cases. But what if there was a way back in to a healthier social life, one where the phone takes a back seat to meaningful friendships and experiences? There may be, Blair Braverman writes, in “Can Outdoor Friendships Solve the Loneliness Epidemic?” for @outside:

https://flip.it/Xyc53r

America is becoming a nation of #homebodies

Research we’re currently conducting suggests that more time spent at home has dovetailed with more time spent alone. Suffice it to say, this makes #loneliness, which stems from a lack of meaningful connections, a more common occurrence. Loneliness and #socialisolation are associated with increased risk for early mortality.

#health #wellbeing

https://theconversation.com/america-is-becoming-a-nation-of-homebodies-250350

#food #photography #sundaylunch #chicken #loneliness #sad When cooking the #Sunday #roast for one, sometimes that's when it hurts most.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2025/02/is-political-extremism-partly-caused-by-loneliness

#Psychology

Is #PoliticalExtremism Caused by #Loneliness?

#SocialIsolation #farright

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/misogyny-often-connection-between-overlapping-far-right-ideologies

#TheInterpreter

#Misogyny is often the connection between overlapping #farright ideologies

a holisitc approach to addressing violent extremism starts with confronting deep-seated societal issues.

How being alone can weaken social identity, with broad implications for group processes and societal cohesiveness

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-weaken-social-identity-broad-implications.html

https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjso.12438

#BritishPsychologicalSoceity

#Neoliberalism can reduce well-being by promoting a sense of #socialdisconnection, competition, and #loneliness

by #JuliaCBecker, #LeaHartwich, #SAlexanderHaslam 8 jan 2021

A 14-year-old boy’s suicide following a romantic relationship with an #AI
[https://newsie.social/tags/AI] companion raised alarms about the dangers these
relationships may pose to young people’s mental and emotional development.
#chatbot [https://newsie.social/tags/chatbot] #mentalhealth
[https://newsie.social/tags/mentalhealth] #relationships
[https://newsie.social/tags/relationships] #loneliness
[https://newsie.social/tags/loneliness] #love [https://newsie.social/tags/love]
https://theconversation.com/teenagers-turning-to-ai-companions-are-redefining-love-as-easy-unconditional-and-always-there-242185
[https://theconversation.com/teenagers-turning-to-ai-companions-are-redefining-love-as-easy-unconditional-and-always-there-242185]

A 14-year-old boy’s suicide following a romantic relationship with an #AI companion raised alarms about the dangers these relationships may pose to young people’s mental and emotional development.
#chatbot #mentalhealth #relationships #loneliness #love
https://theconversation.com/teenagers-turning-to-ai-companions-are-redefining-love-as-easy-unconditional-and-always-there-242185

Ooops, I had more spoons than previously thought.. And made a zine.

If you want your own copy of it, it’s over here

If you relate, you have my condolences. This is a sad one.

-Lazarus

Many people believe that gifted people feel special and better than others.
I feel and have felt like a miserable piece of shit most of the time, I perceive life in this world as a cruel punishment, I find it very difficult to relate to people and I only have peace when I am alone and isolated from the world or when I meditate for long hours.
So no, I don't feel as great as people think. The only thing special is my existential depression.

"The tech ecosystem that surrounds today's teens is fueling loneliness," writes Axios' Erica Pandey. It's a generation that has grown up with technology immersed into everyday life and is causing teens to spend less time socializing in person, according to a new report.

@AxiosNews explains:
https://flip.it/nWp25Z